Table 6

Newly designed protein signatures/peptides for the different blue copper proteins. The number of protein sequences retrieved from the PIR nREF database for each of the newly designed signatures.

S. NO:

NAME OF THE PROTEIN

SIGNATURE /PEPTIDES

NO: OF RELATED PICKS

NO: OF FALSE PICKS

1

PLANTACYANIN

[F]-[I]-[C]-[NST]-[F]-[PG]-x-[H]-[C]

10

NO

2

PLASTOCYANIN [eukaryotic source]

[C]-x-[P]-[H]-x-[GS]-[A]-[GN]-[M]

80

1

3

PLASTOCYANIN [prokaryotic source]

[Y]-[C]-x-[P]-[H]-[R]-[G]-[A]-[G]-[M]-[V]-[G]

21

NO

4

PLASTOCYANIN [prokaryotic source]

PHRGAGMVG

21

NO

5

STELLACYANIN

[H]-[C]-x-[NL]-[G]-[MQ]-[K]-[LV]-x-[VI]-[NRQ]-[V]

7

1

6

UCLACYANIN

[P]-[G]-x-[R]-[Y]-[F]-[I]-[C]-[G]

3

NO

7

UCLACYANIN

RYFICG

11

NO

8

RUSTICYANIN

[G]-[M]-[YF]-[G]-[K]-[I]-[V]-[V]

8

NO

9

SULFOCYANIN

[C]-[G]-[I]-[AL]-[G]-[H]-[A]-[VAQ]-[SA]-[G]-[M]-[W]

5

1

10

SULFOCYANIN

FNFNGTS

5

1

11

AMICYANIN

[AP]-[G]-[SAT]-[FVY]-[D]-[YF]-[FHIY]-[C]-[RT]-x-[H]-[P]

10

1

12

HALOCYANIN

[C]-[TN]-[P]-[H]-x-[AT]-x-[G]-[M]-x-[G]-[A]

2

NO

13

PSEUDOAZURIN

[K]-[C]-[TA]-[P]-[H]-x-[GAM]-[M]-[GS]-[M]

18

NO

14

AZURIN

[D]-x-[R]-[V]-[LI]-[A]-[HYF]-[T]-x-[VIL]-[VIL]-[G]-[GAS]-[G]

54

NO

15

NITRITE REDUCTASE

[P]-[ST]-[HY]-[VIGA]-[VL]-[FM]-[N]-[G]

235

NO

Giri et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2004 5:127   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-5-127